Re: [wmii] Does wmii violate U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412?

Can we all just agree that patents are idiotic, braindamaged and
evil[1], and stop this pointless discussion? thanks.

uriel

[1] http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/intellectual_property/quotes_on_patents

On 10/12/07, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:11:28PM +0200, Denis Grelich wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:14:05 +0200
> > "Anselm R. Garbe" <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:04:55PM +0200, Paweł Tęcza wrote:
> > > > This is a hot news [1]. Do you think that our darling wmii
> > > > can violate that patent (User Interface with Multiple
> > > > Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects)? ;)
> > >
> > > There are no workspaces in wmii or dwm. So the patent is not
> > > relevant to wmii or dwm. There is only a single workspace (we
> > > call it view).
> >
> > They talk about the internal representation where the position and
> > gemotry of the windows is saved "per workspace."
>
> Well and that's not the case with dwm/wmii. In dwm no geometry
> is presaved at all per tag. In wmii a client can appear in all
> tags, so there are no workspaces. Only limited use of the
> dwm/wmii concepts might violate the patent, but that's a problem
> of the user.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
>
>
Received on Fri Oct 12 2007 - 15:31:31 UTC